Happy Saturday! I got my coffee, I got my whipped cream on top, I got my dark chocolate mix added into the coffee, and I’ve got my bacon jerky. Let’s do this!!!
Chak De! It’s on Amazon, and also einthusan, and also your DVD shelf probably. Oh and remember, once we finish watching it we will need to give opinions on which team member is most attractive in a ladies-who-like-ladies kind of way. So head back to This Post for that!!!
I’ll put up a “And PLAY” comment at 7:30am and we will go straight along commenting from then on.
dontcallitbollywood 
Poor Mr. Manager guy will have to work all that out with the damages.
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I bet Kabir just pays out of pocket in the end.
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Ha!
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Did he mean to say “I want everyone..on the field” super super sexy, or did it just come out that way?
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Mmmm, nice silhouette.
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I love that he is running with them! Didn’t even occur to me until just now, but in most sports movies, the coach is on a bike pacing them. He’s not asking them to do any more than he does.
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I think this is the only song in the movie right? I set it as my alarm this morning and this was the only song that came up when I tried to search for the movie
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One more, the “wow, Australia is awesome” song. And the “Maula Maula” song we only get bits of.
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There are couple more- Maula and Badal Pe
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I love this song in all it’s cheesiness.
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This one and the Sultan title song are my favorites I think. Now I want to watch the Sultan title song again.
Oh, and of course the Dangal rap.
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And the video of him “singing” this in the red hoodie is peak hot Shah Rukh for me. Right up there with Harry, but with better hair, not so blow dried and stiff.
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Kabir does have better hair than Harry. If he turned on the sexy he would be devastating.
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So devastating.
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I imagine hearing this song at a cricket game is the same feeling my dad gets when they play New York, New York at the end of Yankees games.
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Have you seen the Vande Mataram videos from the last time India won World Cup? It’s amazing
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This movies does such a nice job showing how limited the resources are that are allocated to girl’s hockey. SRK has to draw plays in dirt. And Komal has to get tea from the stall.
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Yes! And what a huge step down in prestige it is for him to be working with the women’s team after the men’s team.
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THIS DUDE!!!!!
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It is hard to imagine being so obsessed with a sport, but then even mi esposo thinks about soccer all the time when he is coaching it.
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Yeah, but is he coaching kids? That would make be obsessed because they would be so saaaaaaaaaaaaaad if they lost and I can’t handle sad children.
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When we win the championship we have icecream to share with the other team.
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That makes me feel a little better. But still, kids competing?
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The number of close ups of SRK playing finger hockey with cups and salt shakers is hilarious. Sign of a great sports thinker.
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Awwwwww!!!! Everyone is now nice and supportive and stuff! Except the older jerks.
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Bindhya is so hurt. I feel for her even though she’s awful and not in the least deserving of the captaincy.
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That was a bit of wierd dubbing with her talking back to boyfriend in the door.
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This dude plays the same type of character in Dangal
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Is he casually holding his World Cup silver medal while he thinks? That is weird. But that “trying to scrub it into gold” is a good line.
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“Trying to scrub it into gold.” He allows himself a little bitterness, but immediately tempers it with humor. So good.
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Who is worse, Abhimanyu or Tripathi?
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Oh man!!!!! That is a really really hard question. I think I am going with Abhimanyu. He is young, he should at least be open to new ideas. Tripathi has been thinking the same way for 30 years.
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Still going with Abhimanyu. He thinks he has Preety’s best interests at heart when he’s not listening to her at all. Tripathi is doing what’s best for himself and what’s best financially, which is inherently evil.
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I watched this with someone recently who pointed out, if you have a hockey team ready to go to the moon, YOU SEND THEM TO THE MOON!!!! That’s AMAZING!!!!
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Oooo, he put on his sexy pants for this locker room speech!
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My favorite scene! Love this so much more than the “seven minute” speech. He is just so damn good with the physical part of acting. I totally buy this. And I like the sentiment of the speech.
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It’s perfect.
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I love this speech!
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I think now Shahrukh is off his mirror practice speech script. He is just talking in response to these particular girls as he has come to know and care about them. And again, his physical contact is perfect to be loving and supportive without inappropriate.
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How did this character turn out so feminist? Raised by a single mother?
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And we are back to my backstory theory that I shared earlier! After being thrown off the team, he saw/met/overheard some female hockey players in a park, they were beaten up by male players and then forced into marriages, and it made him realize Intersectionality. His religious minority anger needs to join with the feminism anger because they are both fighting the same evil.
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Look at all these old comfortable men in the stands!!!! I hate them all.
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Ok, going for toast and coffee. McDonalds scene made me hungry. Will be back in time for the girls’ triumph.
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I love Shahrukh’s tense sidelines faces.
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Nice aviators. Sigh. Appreciate that they made him so nice to look at even if we get no sexy.
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See, Tripathi is deeply evil because he’s deliberately disobeying the rules in order to prove a point and get what he wants. Abhimanyu doesn’t think he’s doing anything wrong by making Preety abandon her game for their wedding. Evil is more obvious when it’s a choice, but it could be worse when it feels like it isn’t.
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Aliya is the best
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Totally forgot that moment. She is the best.
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I think I’m just hyper aware of this, but the noise of the ball rolling on the grass sounds really gross and unnatural.
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All the game sounds are a bit much.
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I love SRK’s friend up in the stands. And I am worried about him, because his life must be absolutely horrible in that work environment.
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His lovely wife and three kids make up for it. And the supportive extended family on both sides. And a super cute mutt named Rascal.
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And Prozac.
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Haha, that too.
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This is such a nice moment. One part of my brain says “of course they can’t have the girls beat the boys because it is unpatriotic”, but another part says “no, this is a lot better ending, surprising us with decency”
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Did the men’s team know what was at stake for the girls?
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I think they must have. The girls team knew.
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Once again, Alia is the best!!!!
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See? Kabir’s friend has the really terrible life. Caring deeply and fighting entrenched evil all day every day. He must have ulcers on top of ulcers.
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Dimples!!!
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Aliyah lifting up Bindiya’s stick is so on point for their characters. They have such a large cast, but these small moments showing their characters are brilliant.
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And Bindiya letting her. She won’t lift her stick herself, but she’s a little grateful that Aliya did it for her and won’t fight it.
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Awwwww! The Northeastern girl and the Punjabi girl are best friends now!!!!
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I love the loaf of bread on the one girls plate.
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And Shah Rukh’s smile when he hands her the second plate is just, ugh, so good and real looking.
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Don’t know why exactly, but India and Australia have a big sports rivalry. Australia’s racist, but it can’t just be that, because lots of places are racist.
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hmm. More so than England or Canada? Now I’m so curious.
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Exactly! I don’t fully understand. They are closer so they can more easily play each other? And Australia is good in similar sports (also cares about Cricket), but it feels like it should be more than that.
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Confessing I don’t like the movie as much once they go to Australia. Except for a couple of scenes – locker room scenes with Bindiya and the confrontation between Preety and Komal.
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I love how once the team is on the field, Shahrukh knows it is on them and he isn’t in control any more, all he can do is be supportive and watch.
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They give Balbir a few important moments in this half. This scene sets up when they unleash her against Argentina.
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I love just the fact that Balbir is included in this movie. The “girls” aren’t just about sportsmanship and practice and talent, there’s also pure anger and strength.
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Pass, PASS!!!! Okay, the movie got me to care about a game.
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Well, Australian women seem to be better than Indian men.
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Oooo, the Australian coach has headsets! And computers!!!
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And the team was practicing in the gym before the match!
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Shah Rukh says they thought the movie was no good, and then it was a smash hit. Do you think he has amped up that story for drama, or did they really think it was a stinker? If they did, I wonder why. The characterization, writing, and plot are so good, and well executed. Just the music is a bit iffy. 🙂
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Maybe he meant “no good” in the sense that it wouldn’t resonate with the masses cuz it’s not escapist enough. It hits on a lot of relevant ideas
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I think he amped up the story a bit. They probably thought it was going to be a low budget unnoticed thing, and then it was a hit. Clearly they spent almost nothing on the budget.
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It is really all about the girls relationships with each other, and SRK is the glue, but not the driver. It isn’t a typical hit.
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The camera work is also great, if you notice the framing of the shots and how they use a different visual vocabulary for different characters.
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Again, impressive how they’re able to use the match sequences for character development, showing all the conflicts among the players.
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Again, perfect supportive touching, no creep factor.
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(when they were coming off the field, all upset, not the locker room scene, haha)
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